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Ten Facebook pages that will get Melbourne talking

Mex Cooper

Melburnians are finding creative ways to share what they love about their unique city on social media. Whether having a giggle at some of our worst parkers, funniest fences or hunting for Melbourne's best vintage treasures and tastiest chicken parmigianas, these are the Facebook pages we think will get people talking.

At first, badly constructed brick fences may seem an odd subject to document around our fine city yet Steve* couldn't stop noticing them. He mentioned it to friends.

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"People would then complain that I had them now distracted by something inane that they'd never bothered to think about," he said.

He then made a Facebook page so he could distract us all and has attracted more than 20,000 likes since April.

Steve thinks there is something quintessentially Melbourne about his page that features photos of brick fences with witticisms about each.

"The size of the suburban block, the strange insistence we have here in demarcating our plots, the proliferation of brick veneer houses in the seventies, and you can't get away from it but our Mediterranean friends gave us food, friendships and bricklaying in abundance," he said.

We've all had a bad parking moment but perhaps not quite as bad as some of these drivers. The page, created by two Melbourne university students, has nearly 100,000 likes and is constantly updated with photos sent in from Melburnians shocked at the lack of parking prowess of their fellow road-users.

Humans of New York, the page that features photographs and accompanying short stories on Big Apple residents taken on the city's streets, has attracted 5.5 million likes and inspired copycats around the world, including Melbourne's very own, created by photographer Kannagi Bhatt, who describes it as a "photographic census of Melbourne."